AMD vs NVIDIA
Choosing A Video Card for After Effects CS6 Ray Tracing
Getting the Right Graphics Card for 3D Ray Tracing in After Effects
After Effects supports a huge number of Nvidia and AMD cards. The more powerful ones give a huge boost to performance.
But when it comes to Ray Tracing in After Effects CS6, something odd. Decent cards seem to either perform very well, or not at all.
The reality is that there are just a few Nvidia cards that provide real performance in After Effects CS6 ray tracing and this video looks at the reasons for this.
Adobe’s Recommend GPUs
The following NVIDIA GPUs are supported in After Effects CS6.
Mac:
GeForce GTX 285
GeForce GT 650M*
Quadro FX 4800
Quadro 4000
Windows:
GeForce GTX 285
GeForce GTX 470
GeForce GTX 570
GeForce GTX 580
GeForce GTX 670*
GeForce GTX 680*
GeForce GTX 690*
Quadro CX
Quadro FX 3700M
Quadro FX 3800
Quadro FX 3800M
Quadro FX 4800
Quadro FX 5800
Quadro 2000
Quadro 2000D
Quadro 2000M
Quadro 3000M
Quadro 4000
Quadro 4000M
Quadro 5000
Quadro 5000M
Quadro 5010M
Quadro 6000
Tesla C2075 (Windows)/Maximus configuration
Source: Adobe.com
